DIAA College Rugby News
Sacramento State edged UC Santa Cruz 21-20 to advance to the Pacific Western Conference final on Sunday, and also book a spot in the ACR DIAA spring playoffs.
Sac State came into the game behind UC Santa Cruz in the league standings, having lost to both UCSC and Fresno State, while Santa Cruz had only lost to Fresno State.
Sacramento State will take on UC Santa Cruz Friday night to decide who joins Fresno State in Sunday's Pacific Western championship match.
Fresno State will get a bye to the final because the 4th-place team, Chico State, is unable to make the trip to Fresno.
Western Washington wanted to go down to San Diego in January and get their season kick-started in the sunshine, but that didn't happen.
Florida State is now 6-0 in Florida's DIAA league after an impressive 27-0 shutout of North Florida on Saturday.
With the win, FSU takes 1st in the regular season in the league, bypassing idle Central Florida, who sit at 5-1.
The curtain drops on the spring DIAA playoffs in a few weeks and
San Diego is the team in Gold Coast after beating Cal State Long Beach 31-19 to move to 3-0 in the conference.